ISBD(NBM) - IFLA

APPENDIX B: BI-DIRECTIONAL RECORDS
Bi-directional records are multi-script records in scripts written from left to right and scripts written from
right to left.
Unless the direction of the script changes within an element, each change of script begins on a new line of
the description at the appropriate margin. Prescribed punctuation is given at the start of the new element
in the style required by the script, except for the prescribed point, comma or semi-colon, which are given at
the end of the previous element in the style required by the script (see also 0.4 Punctuation). Thus, the
point of the point, space, dash, space (. – ) ends the previous element and the dash begins the following
element on a new line at the appropriate margin.
e.g.
Chava Alberstein live [Sound recording] / Alex Weiss, musical director and arranger
- [Israel] : CBS, [197-?]
(English data transcribed first)
= Chava Alberstein live / Alex Weiss, musical director and arranger - [Israel] : CBS, [197-?]
(Hebrew data transcribed first)
Kitab al-Taharah [mikerofis]
/ [oleh M. Said]. – Kuala Lumpur :
Pustaka Melayu Baru, 1977.
(Right-left parallel title within left-right data)
= Pelajaran tafsir juzu'amma
- Kota Bharu : Pustaka Aman Press, 1976.
(Right-left data followed by left-right data, right-left data, and left-right data)
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